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France fines Google, Facebook millions over tracking consent, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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France hits Google, Facebook with huge fines over ‘cookies’ French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for not making it as easy for people to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it. The CNIL data privacy watchdog said its investigations found that while the U.S. online giants gave French users a single button to immediately accept cookies, there wasn’t an equally simple way for them to decline because “several clicks […]

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Facebook appeals UK ruling that it must sell Giphy, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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This image is for representational purpose only. (File image: iStock) Facebook-owner Meta is appealing Britain’s ruling that it must sell animated images platform Giphy, saying the evidence does not support the finding that the deal is a threat to its rivals or could impact competition in display advertising. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ordered Meta to sell Giphy, which it acquired for a reported $400 million in May 2020, last month after it decided the remedies offered by the US company did not answer its concerns. […]

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Facebook pays fines to Russia over banned content, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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Picture used for representational purpose Facebook has paid 17 million roubles ($229,643) in fines owed in Russia for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, but with the threat of a potentially larger fine looming. Facebook parent Meta, along with Alphabet’s Google, faces a court case next week for suspected repeated violations of Russian legislation on content and could be fined a percentage of its annual revenue in Russia. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment on […]

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Meta targets ‘cyber mercenaries’ using Facebook to spy, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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Meta targets ‘cyber mercenaries’ using Facebook to spy. (File image: iStock) Facebook parent Meta on Thursday banned a series of “cyber mercenary” groups, and began alerting some 50,000 people likely targeted by the firms accused of spying on activists, dissidents and journalists worldwide. Meta took down 1,500 Facebook and Instagram pages linked to groups with services allegedly ranging from scooping up public information online to using fake personas to build trust with targets or digital snooping via hack attacks. The social media giant also started warning about […]

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Facebook opens virtual world app to public, inching toward metaverse, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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The firm’s metaverse push also includes tools for remote working, which has boomed during the pandemic. Facebook‘s parent firm opened its Horizon Worlds virtual reality platform on Thursday to the public in North America, in a step toward building its metaverse vision for the future. Horizon Worlds is far from a fully realized metaverse, a future internet where online experiences like chatting to a friend would eventually feel face-to-face thanks to virtual reality (VR) headsets. But headset-wearing users in the United States and Canada can now gather […]

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Facebook whistleblower says transparency needed to fix social media ills, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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A deeper investigation into Facebook‘s lack of controls to prevent misinformation and abuse in languages other than English is likely to leave people “even more shocked” about the potential harms caused by the social media firm, whistleblower Frances Haugen told Reuters. Haugen, a former product manager at Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook, spoke at the Reuters Next conference on Friday. She left the company in May with thousands of internal documents which she leaked to the Wall Street Journal. That led to a series of articles in September […]

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Facebook shuts down anti-vaccine campaign harassing doctors, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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Facebook shuts down anti-vaccine campaign harassing doctors. Facebook‘s parent company Meta said Wednesday it had derailed an anti-vaccine campaign that harassed medical workers, journalists and elected officials, in a signal of the ongoing pressure from coronavirus pandemic-tied misinformation. The social media giant took down accounts in France and Italy that were linked to a conspiracy movement called “V_V”, which inundated pro-vaccine posts with potentially tens of thousands of comments. “V-V” supporters also “mass-harassed” people on YouTube, Twitter, VKontakte and other online platforms, using swastikas or other images […]

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Australia challenges Facebook to back anti-troll defamation law, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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Australia challenges Facebook to back anti-troll defamation law. Facebook will show it has no interest in making the online world safe if it quits Australia over laws holding it liable for defamation on its platform, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday. In the latest of several attempts to hold global internet firms to greater account for content on their platforms, Australia plans to make them share the identities of people with anonymous accounts if another person accuses them of defamation. If the social media company fails […]

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EU internet regulation to push Facebook to sanitise Metaverse platforms, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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With the European Union (EU) Council formally adopting both the draft Digital Services Act (DSA) and a Digital Markets Act (DMA) to better control hate speech, counterfeit goods, cyber threats and disinformation, experts on Friday said that the EU’s twin internet-regulation package will put further pressure on global social networks such as Meta (formerly Facebook) to better police their own platforms in the upcoming age of Metaverse. The proposed DSA aims to keep users safe from illegal goods, content or services and protect their fundamental rights online, […]

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Ohio retirement fund sues Facebook over investment loss, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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Ohio‘s largest public employee pension fund has sued Facebook – now known as Meta – alleging that it broke federal securities law by purposely misleading the public about the negative effects of its social platforms and the algorithms that run them. The lawsuit by the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System specifically claims that Facebook buried inconvenient findings about how the company has managed those algorithms as well as the steps it said it was taking to protect the public. The suit also contends claims that Facebook knew […]

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